Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable.

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.